Giovanni da Milano (Giovanni di Jacopo di Guido da Caversaccio) was an Italian
painter, known to be active in Florence and Rome between 1346 and
1369.
His style is, like many Florentine painters of the time, considered to be derivative of Giotto's. Vasari misidentified him as a student of
Taddeo Gaddi, a noted Giotto protégé.[1]
Hailing from Lombardy, the earliest documentation shows Giovanni in Florence on October 17,
1346, under the name Johannes Jacobi de Commo, listed amongst the foreign painters living in Tuscany.[2]
Amongst Giovanni's most significant works:
- A polyptych with Madonna and Saints (c. 1355), the oldest known signed work by Giovanni da Milano, painted for the
Prato Spedale della Misericordia
- A polyptych made for the Ognissanti of Florence (c. 1363), now
dismembered and scattered, depicting saints and scenes of the Creation
- Man of Sorrows panel (c. 1365, Accademia, Florence), the oldest known signed and dated work
- Frescoes decorating both sides of the Rinuccini Chapel in Santa
Croce, Florence. Each side consists of five scenes - one side depicting the Life of the
Virgin and the other the Life of Mary
Magdalene. Giovanni is credited with the upper two registers of each cycle. The bottom register is credited to
Matteo di Pacino.[3]
The latest extent documentation of Giovanni's career comes in 1369, when he is known to be working in Rome for
Pope Urban V with Giottino and the sons of Taddeo
Gaddi.
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